Sangu Delle, Regina Agyare, Sarkodie, Davido, & Others Are The Finalists For The Future Awards Africa 2014 As Awards Holds This December In Lagos

Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has unveiled the list of its finalists for the 2014 edition of the awards.

The finalists have been selected from the pool of outstanding individuals across various disciplines and nominated from all over Africa for this season of the awards – and have been assessed through a four-month process supervised by the Central Working Committee, Board of Judges and Independent Audit Committee.

“We are delighted to announce the finalists for this year’s awards. It was a painstaking process but we are happy that the quality of nominations keeps rising every year,” said Elikem Nutifafa, who is member of the Independent Audit Committee. “These are the brightest stars of Africa’s today, and future.:

The winners will be announced at an exclusive ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria on the 7th December 2014.

See complete list of finalists below:

TFAA Prize in Technology

Jamilia Abass, Linda Kwamboka & Susan Oguya

Mark Essien

Joshua Okello

TFAA Prize in Community Action

Jake Okechukwu

Tricia Ikponmwonba

Nixon Ochatre

TFAA Prize in Public Service

Lukman Jaji

Okwuone Nkechi

Ahmed Salihijo

TFAA Prize in Advocacy

Kennedy Odede

Boniface Mwangi

Abdikadir Aden Hassan

TFAA Prize in Enterprise Support

Sanga Moses

Bunmi Otegbade

Justin Stanford

TFAA Prize in Entertainment

Panshak Zamani (Ice Prince)

Michael Kwesi Owusu (Sarkodie)

Nasibu Adul Juma (Diamond)

TFAA Prize in Agriculture

Olawale Isaiah Ojo

Charles Nichols and Samir Ibrahim

Nasir Yammama

The Tony O. Elumelu Prize in Business

Eseoghene Odiete

Ally Edha Awadh

Andrew Mupuya

TFAA Prize in Education

Regina Agyare

Obanor Chukwuwezam & Ogunlana Olumide

Philip Obaji Jr

TFAA Prize for Young Person of the Year

Kayode Disu

Joel Mwale

Sangu Delle

Alengot Oromait

David Adedeji Adeleke (Davido)

The Future Awards Africa 2014 is presented in partnership with Microsoft and the Tony Elumelu Foundation and is headlined by Vitafoam.

Cool FM is the host radio station. Channels Television is the host TV station.

For more information, visit @TFAAfrica on Twitter/Instagram or the websitewww.thefutureafrica.com/awards. The official hashtags for the 2014 awards are #TheFutureAwardsAfrica and #TheFutureAwards2014.

The Future Awards Africa has been called the ‘Nobel Prize for Young Africans’, and the ‘most important youth awards’ by Forbes. It is a set of prizes given annually to celebrate and accelerate innovation, creativity and enterprise amongst young Africans aged 18 – 31. It has produced over 150 winners and over 1500 nominees since its first edition in 2006.

It is presented in conjunction with The Future Project, which has a mandate to build empowered citizens across Africa, through (inclusive) enterprise and (active) citizenship. This focus on Human Capital Development is informed by our value proposition: Africa’s growth needs a generation of young people who are gainfully employed and able to demand and secure better leadership.

Our projects include Aiki.ng, an employability portal presented with Microsoft; the Nigeria Symposium for Young & Emerging Leaders, #StartupsAfrica, Intern4Jobs, The m-Hub, TheFuture Enterprise Support Scheme and The Future Africa Awards & Summit, described as ‘The Nobel Prize for Young Africans’.

With a network of funders and partners including the Tony Elumelu Foundation, the US Government, First Bank, MTN, HP, the Nigerian Government and the British Council, our work has spanned Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Malawi, Cameroon, Somalia, Equitorial Guinea, Ivory Coast and Kenya.

Founded by the Chude Jideonwo and Adebola Williams, TFP is supervised by a Global Board of Advisors drawn from Africa, Europe, North America and the Middle East, including the Coordinating Minister of the Nigerian Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Senior Economic Advisor with the Open Society Foundations, Dr. Obiageli Ezekwesili; co-founder of ONE, Jamie Drummond and the Chief of Cabinet with the Africa Development Bank, Anne Kabagambe.